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"Today... we are coming to realize that the thalidomide tragedy was not an exception but, rather, a warning. We have come to understand that chemicals in the environment can cause a wide range of developmental disabilities in children, and that anatomic malformations are only the most obvious. Current concerns especially focus on the concept that certain chemicals can cause clinical and subclinical deficits in neurobehavioral development through injury to the fetal brain."
Bernard Weiss and Philip J. Landrigan, in
Environmental Health Perspectives, June 2000